Libya warplane of Khalifa Hifter's forces makes emergency landing in Tunisia
A Libyan warplane of military commander Khalifa Hifter's forces made an emergency landing in neighboring Tunisia on Monday, authorities in Libya said. The aircraft was on a "reconnaissance and patrol mission and suffered a technical problem resulting in an emergency landing" in southern Tunisia, said ...
SOS Mediterranee relaunches migrant rescue missions off Libya
Humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee said Sunday it has relaunched rescue efforts off Libya seven months after it abandoned operations using its ship Aquarius and despite a refusal by European ports to accept the migrants. The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking will "conduct search and rescue activities in ...
Libya on Wednesday extradited to Britain the brother of a suicide bomber who attacked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in May 2017 and killed 22 people, officials said. Salman Abedi's brother, Hashem, who was arrested in Libya days after the bombing, was handed over ...
Migrants seen returning to Libya detention center two weeks after airstrike killed over 50
A Libyan detention center where an airstrike killed more than 50 people two weeks ago is filling with migrants again, and work has resumed at a nearby weapons workshop, despite calls from the United Nations to empty the compound and others like it near ...
French missile claim hints at role in war to take Tripoli, Libya minister says
France's admission that it owned sophisticated U.S.-made missiles found at a Libyan base seized from strongman Khalifa Hifter's forces indicates it backs his offensive to seize the capital, the interior minister of Libya's internationally recognized government said. The Javelin anti-tank missiles were uncovered when government ...
Four reported killed as car bombs explode near Benghazi forces leaders
At least two bomb-laden vehicles exploded Thursday near a group of Libyan National Army leaders in their eastern stronghold of Benghazi, killing four people and wounding 33 others and casting doubt on the LNA's three-month-old offensive on Tripoli, the U.N.-backed government's capital. The spokesman for ...
France says its missiles were found on pro-Khalifa Hifter base in Libya
France said Wednesday its missiles had been found at a Libyan base used by forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Hifter, in an embarrassing admission that raises fresh questions about its role in the conflict. Confirming a report in the New York Times, a defense ministry ...
Forty-four migrants, including women and children, plucked from their stricken vessel in the Mediterranean arrived in Malta Tuesday after charity boat Alan Kurdi handed the shipwreck victims over to the Maltese coast guard on the high-seas. Malta agreed to take in those rescued by the ...
U.N. says death toll from fighting for control of Tripoli passes 1,000
The battle between rival militias for the Libyan capital has killed more than 1,000 people since it began in April, the U.N. said Tuesday, a grim milestone in a stalemated conflict partly fueled by regional powers. Forces loyal to Khalifa Hifter, a veteran army officer, ...
Tunisia finds corpses of pregnant migrant and toddler as body count from sinking reaches 16
Tunisia's Red Crescent said Sunday three more bodies had been retrieved off the country's coast, including those of a pregnant woman and toddler, days after a boat carrying scores of migrants sank. "The number of bodies retrieved (from the water) has reached 15," said Red ...
Malta OKs transfer of 65 migrants from German rescue ship to port
Malta's government has agreed to help 65 rescued migrants by transferring them from a German-operated rescue boat to a Maltese military vessel that will take them to a Maltese port. Malta announced the decision on Sunday afternoon after talks with the European Commission and the ...
Migrants face 'hell of Libya' choice: Perilous sea escape or abusive detention and war
A boat from Libya carrying 86 migrants sank in the Mediterranean and left only three survivors, authorities said Thursday, after an airstrike on a detention center near the Libyan capital killed dozens of others. The twin tragedies illustrate the almost unthinkable choice facing those who ...
